Lalla Rookh Hotel, 509-511 Queensberry Street, North Melbourne
Butler, Graeme18 Jan 1985
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Lalla Rookh Hotel, 509-511 Queensberry Street, North Melbourne
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18 Jan 1985
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GRAEME BUTLER 1983, CONSERVATION STUDY FOR THE CITY OF MELBOURNE OF NORTH AND WEST MELBOURNEGrading as at 1985: BPeriod: Early Victorian (1862-3)Grantee: George Evans 1852History- The first Lalla Rookh was built between the sale of the land in September 1852 to John Kennedy, its licensing in December 1853, and its first rate book entry in 1854: the Lalla Rookh Hotel was one of the first in the area and Kennedy was the first hotelier. Mrs. O'Keefe was the other licensee between 1855 and 1860 when Kennedy died and by 1862, the license moved to the present premises owned by John Ryan whose family remained there until after 1900. James Kearney's 1855 map of Melbourne town and its suburbs shows the old Lalla Rookh on a site near the present one, i.e. 470-478 Queensberry StreetDescription- A two-storey, basalt, rubble masonry former hotel with a shallow, dressed pediment to a corniced parapet and dressed quoins to corners and openings. Vermiculated keystones are placed in the arched openings at ground level; being two doors and two windows, symmetrically disposed. Stone flagging had been laid on the footpath adjoining the building by 1896.Integrity - One doorway has been closed in and one door replaced; minor signs have been added; upper window sashes have been replaced.Streets cape - Contributing and oldest part of the important civic and commercial Queensberry Street (Leveson -Errol Street) precinctArchitecturally, an unusual design and a location for a hotel, appearing more as a warehouse and not being corner-sited, but the two minor entrances confirm externally its use (bar, residential). Built skilfully of a material used for a brief period in Melbourne's history and not usually for hotel construction. It is also a contributing part of a precinct associated with the former town hall and other early shops: of high regional importance. Historically, among the first group of buildings in North Melbourne and, as the earliest surviving hotel in the area, a social centre for a lengthy period: of high local importance.Recommendations - Restore the doorway and doors as either six-panel or four-panel Victorian pattern doors; remove signage and replace as required; restore upper windows as double hung sashes, six-pane.References:(RB= Rate book; D= Melbourne or Victoria Directory; BW= Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works )1. RB 1854, 1162; RB 1858, 544; RB 1865, 1312. D. 1899-19003. BW DP 759
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